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dognap

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dog·nap  (dôgnp, dg-)
tr.v. dog·napped or dog·naped, dog·nap·ping or dog·nap·ing, dog·naps
To steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it to a research laboratory.


dognapper n.

dognap [ˈdɒgnæp]
vb -naps, -napping, -napped US, -naps -naping, -naped
(tr) to carry off and hold (a dog), usually for ransom
[from dog + kidnap]
dognapper  n
dognapping  US, dognaping n


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Mother-of-two Debbie, 50, said the whole family were devastated and that after the dognap Bruce, 78, "came to take me home because I was in a terrible state".
A dognap has broken the heart of the puppy's 11-year-old owner.
Her bumbling henchmen (Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams, broad) dognap the 15-pup litter owned by nice young Londoners Roger and Anita (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson, bland) and stash them with 84 other little whelps in a decrepit country mansion.
 
 
 
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